book-status

book-status is a skill for Claude Code from epicsagas/Velith. It costs 35 tokens per session (254 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project-progress dashboard that scans a book project and records its status in JSON files for a local web page or terminal view.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a book project, update its status file, list tracked projects, and open a browser dashboard.
Why use it?
It gives you one place to see project progress instead of checking separate files or folders manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the velith plugin — 18 skills, 12 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to scan a book project, update its status file, list tracked projects, and open a browser dashboard.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add epicsagas/Velith
Claude Code
/plugin install velith

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install velith, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 12 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 254 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.00254
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00127
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash a90e61b1e9a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-status scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/book-status/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Book Status

Run: node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/velith.mjs scan [dir] [--ui]

Outputs {dir}/.velith/status.json, updates ~/.velith/velith.db, prints a terminal dashboard including the readiness verdict and score when edits/readiness-report.md exists.

--ui opens the browser dashboard at http://localhost:9631/{index}/overview.

--metrics also runs node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/velith.mjs metrics {dir}/drafts and prints per-chapter sentence statistics, repeated phrases, and AI-tell counts. Use it to spot drift between chapters before running the editing pipeline.

Other commands: list (all projects), stats [dir] (JSON), words <file>, snapshot <dir> <label>.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago Changed · +5 lines · +17 tokens per session a90e61b1e9a6
  2. 7d ago First seen · 15 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A b20d0bb7dcf3

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book-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository epicsagas/Velith (33 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 254 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.